The rising-falling nuclear pitch accent of Occitan disapproval statements consists in three tonal targets: LH+L*. Instead of leading the starred tone at a fixed interval in normalized time (Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1989), the two L and H leading tone targets align with determinate anchoring points in the segmental stream, namely the left and right edges of the preaccentual syllable, respectively. Grice’s (1995b) model for pitch accent structure allows accounting for this alignment pattern since it includes leading tones within a different node that precedes the one that dominates starred and trailing tones.